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Exodus 23:14-19
Contemporary English Version
Exodus 23:14-19
Contemporary English Version
Three Annual Festivals
(Exodus 34.18-26; Deuteronomy 16.1-17)
The Lord said:
14 Celebrate three festivals each year in my honor.
15 (A) Celebrate the Festival of Thin Bread by eating bread made without yeast, just as I have commanded.[a] Do this at the proper time during the month of Abib,[b] because it is the month when you left Egypt. And make certain that everyone brings the proper offerings.
16 (B) Celebrate the Harvest Festival[c] each spring when you start harvesting your wheat, and celebrate the Festival of Shelters[d] each autumn when you pick your fruit.
17 Your men must come to these three festivals each year to worship me.
18 Do not offer bread made with yeast when you sacrifice an animal to me. And make sure that the fat of the animal is burned that same day.
19 (C) Each year bring the best part of your first harvest to the place of worship.
Don't boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 23.15 as I have commanded: See 12.14-20.
- 23.15 Abib: See the note at 12.2.
- 23.16 Harvest Festival: Traditionally called the “Festival of Weeks” and known in New Testament times as “Pentecost.”
- 23.16 Festival of Shelters: The Hebrew text has “Festival of Ingathering” (so also in 34.22), which was the final harvesting of crops and fruits before the autumn rains began. But the usual name was “Festival of Shelters.”
Exodus 23:14-19
New International Version
Exodus 23:14-19
New International Version
The Three Annual Festivals
14 “Three times(A) a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.
15 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread;(B) for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv,(C) for in that month you came out of Egypt.
“No one is to appear before me empty-handed.(D)
16 “Celebrate the Festival of Harvest(E) with the firstfruits(F) of the crops you sow in your field.
“Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering(G) at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.(H)
17 “Three times(I) a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord.
18 “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast.(J)
“The fat of my festival offerings must not be kept until morning.(K)
19 “Bring the best of the firstfruits(L) of your soil to the house of the Lord your God.
“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.(M)
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